Authors
Matthew Lease, Jessica Hullman, Jeffrey Bigham, Michael Bernstein, Juho Kim, Walter Lasecki, Saeideh Bakhshi, Tanushree Mitra, Robert Miller
Publication date
2013/3/6
Journal
Available at SSRN 2228728
Description
While Amazon's Mechanical Turk (AMT) online workforce has been characterized by many people as being anonymous, we expose an aspect of AMT's system design that can be exploited to reveal a surprising amount of information about many AMT Workers, which may include personally identifying information (PII). This risk of PII exposure may surprise many Workers and Requesters today, as well as impact current institutional review board (IRB) oversight of human subjects research involving AMT Workers as participants.
Scholar articles
M Lease, J Hullman, J Bigham, M Bernstein, J Kim… - Available at SSRN 2228728, 2013
